Land Management Search Results
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Streamflow in all basins influenced by the disturbance of muskeg. Where muskeg is removed and replaced by mineral soils, stream discharge will decrease during spring runoff and stormflow periods
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Jeff Wilson
Scott Heckbert
Craig Aumann
Marius Cutlac
William Donahue
Mike Kennedy
Yongbo Liu
Daiyuan Pan
Wanhong Yang
The model documentation summarizes the data, variables and assumptions required to capture how water purification services are provided across landscapes in Alberta
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Hydrotechnical research in the Alberta Oil Sands has been oriented toward establishment of baseline (pre-development) environmental conditions and identification of contaminant transport mechanisms
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Vanessa Caron
M. Henley
Eduard Loos
Kevin Renkema
Dean MacKenzie
Natalie Shelby-James
In 2018, the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada (PTAC) initiated a multi-stage project on the reclamation certification process for sites that were constructed using imported mineral soil pads in...
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Madeline Stanley
Marina Puzyreva
Dimple Roy
Resource Date:
February
2019
In Canada and globally, there is growing use of natural infrastructure (NI)—actively managed natural systems and resources such as plants, soil and wetlands—to address increasing risks related to climate change and to meet pressing environmental and economic needs.
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Paul Addison
A.A. Khan
Sylvie L'Hirondelle
F. Theriault
No impact on jack pine physiology was found when concentrations of the dominant pollutants from Oil Sands operations equivalent to 104 years of soluble disposition were added to intact soil cores
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Terry Macyk
Zdenek Widtman
Vern Betts
The Alberta Research Council has conducted a reclamation research program near Grande Cache, Alberta in conjunction with the surface mining operations of Smoky River Coal Limited since 1972. Use of...
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Six hundred Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and 600 lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) seedlings were planted on seven plots in a cutover north of Golden, British Columbia, to...
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Charles Bulmer
M.G. Schmidt
B. Kishchuk
C. Preston
We investigated soil factors and tree growth on sites that were clearcut during the 1970s and early 1980s and were subsequently site prepared with either blade scarification (blading) or prescribed...
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Vinod Mahat
Axel Anderson
Rivers in Southern Alberta are vulnerable to climate change because much of the river water originates as snow in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
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Global warming may cause photosynthesis to start earlier. As the climate warms, spring arrives earlier and fall ends later. This change in temperature affects how trees grow. Gretta Goodine of the...
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Soil conditions, growth of 1200 planted seedlings each of lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta var. latifolia) and Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii), and development of other vegetation were studied to...
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Ellen Macdonald
Richard Rothwell
The impacts of different methods of mechanical site preparation (MSP) treatments on foliar nutrients of planted plug+ 1 white spruce seedlings were examined at two mixed-wood boreal forest sites (Judy...
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Thomas Habib
Scott Heckbert
Jeffrey Wilson
Andrew Vandenbroeck
Jerome Cranston
Daniel Farr
This ecosystem service modelling system allows stakeholders to evaluate the opportunities and trade-offs to make informed decisions for achieving land-use planning goals.
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Benjamin Moody
Peter Amirault
Literature pertaining to the impact of forest pests on timber productivity in the prairie provinces and Northwest Territories is reviewed. The discussion of impact is largely confined to growth loss...
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Sandra Landsburg
Karen Cannon
Available information indicates that overstripping and subsequent replacement of topsoil can produce horizon characteristics similar to plow depth characteristics resulting from cultivation
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One hundred and sixty-two lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta var. latifolia) and 162 Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca) seedlings were excavated in a clearcut north of Golden to ascertain...
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Studies to determine levels and impacts of soil disturbance caused during root-disease control by stump removal were initiated on a cutover on southern Vancouver Island immediately prior to the...
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Ginger Gibson
Rachel Ford
The Firelight Group
Between June and November 2022, MakeWay and the Firelight Group (Firelight) conducted research on five different Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs). Through nine interviews and a two-day...
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Jay Woosaree
Rafael Otfinowski
Restoration of grassland ecosystems is critical to the provision of ecosystem services, however, legacies of historic disturbances pose a challenge to grassland restoration. In the northern Great...